Legal Opinion
McWhorter v. City of Birmingham
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 24, 1990No. 89-7387PublishedCited by 81 opinions
1Per curiam
Appellant Hánk R. McWhorter, a former Birmingham, Alabama police officer, sued Birmingham police chief Arthur Deutcsh and the City of Birmingham under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that he was discharged in retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights. Specifically, McWhorter alleged that he was fired for making statements to the press concerning *676Deutcsh’s physical abuse of a person in police custody and in order for Deutcsh to gain an advantage in Deutcsh's pending libel suit against the Birmingham Post-Herald. Deutcsh and the City contended that McWhorter had been fired for…
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